216 Scrophulanacee. [ Veronica. 
A prostrate, perennial herb: 1. ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 
shallowly crenate; lamina about + in. long, glabrous; fils. 
shortly stalked, in leafy terminal racemes; cal.-segments 
oblong, equalling the capsule; capsule broadly obcordate. 
Upper montane zone; naturalised. Nuvara Eliya (1915); Hakgala 
(1920). Fl. Apr., June; lilac. 
Also in the Himalaya, Europe, N. Asia and Africa, N. & S. America. 
For V2 pohia’ Fries-read - 
V. pipyMa Tenore Prodr. Fl. Nap. p. 6 (1817); Ind. Kew p. 1189 
(1895). V. polita Fries, Novit, Fl. Suec., ed. 2, p. 1 (1828). V. agrestis 
Hk. f. in FL ‘Brit.Ind. TV, p. 294 (£885) pp: 
Nuvara Eliya (1880), Trimen. 
Native of the N. Temperate regions. 
Page 255.—For Striga orobanchoides Benth. read: 
1. S. gesneroides Vatke. ex Engl. in Abh. Preuss. Akad Wiss. 
p- 28 (1894). Buchnera gesneroides Willd. Sp. Pl. III, p. 338 (1800). 
B. orobanchoides Br. in Salt. Abbyss. App. p. (1814). 
Gamble Fl. Madr. p. 967 (1924) states that S. orobanchoides Benth. 
(S. gesneroides Vatke) is a reddish-brown plant with a pink corolla, 
while S. densiflora Benth. is green with a white corolla. 
Trimen, Journ. Bot. XXXIII, p. 172, is apparently correct in stating 
that ‘‘ The plant is pale green, and the flowers white, becoming pale 
violet when withering.’’ 
Van Buuren, Poona Agric. Coll. Reprints I, pp. 7-9 (1915), gives 
the following host plants: Lepidagathis cristata, L. trinervius, Hygro- 
phila sp., Dysophylla quadrifolia, bajri (Pennisetum spicatum), jowari 
(Sorghum vulgare), rushes, Sanseviera sp., Indigofera sp., Dalbergia 
sp., Balsamea sp., Cissus quadrangularis, etc. 
Page 256.— 
2. S. lutea Lour. 
Van Buuren |. c. pp. 3-5 and 6 gives the following host plants: 
sugar-cane, jowari (Sorghum vulgare), maize, bajri (Pennisetum spica- 
tum), Hill millet (Panicum miliaceum?), Eragrostis, sp., Hill paddy. 
For S$. euphrasioides Benth. read: 
3. S. asiatica O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. p. 466 (1891). Buchnera asiatica 
Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 630 (1753). B. euphrasioides Vahl Symb. III, p. 81 
(1794). Striga euphrasioides Benth. in Hk. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, p. 364 
(1835). 
Van Buuren |. c. pp. 6-7 gives sugar-cane as the host plant. 
Ceylon was apparently Linnzeus’s type locality and there is a 
specimen of this plant in his Herbarium. He states that the corolla 
was purple, which can be accounted for, when the following remark 
of Van Buuren (I. c. p. 7) is considered : ‘‘ At the approach of the dry 
season, some plants (of S. asiatica) which I had under observation 
showed a sensitiveness to drought. The leaves took on a purplish-red 
tinge whilst even the corolla had many fine streaks of the same 
colour.”’ 
It is possible that we have 3 allied species included under this name. 
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